The quasi-optical design of the QUaD telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5498, Issue , 2004, Pages 396-406

  Cahill, Gary ^a   O'Sullivan, Créidhe ^a   Murphy, J Anthony ^a   Lanigan, William ^a   Gleeson, Emily ^a   Ade, Peter ^b   Bock, James ^c   Bowden, Melanie ^b   Carlstrom, John ^d   Church, Sarah ^e   Ganga, Ken ^f   Gear, Walter ^b   Harris, John ^b   Hinderks, James ^e   Hu, Wayne ^d   Kovac, John ^d   Lange, Andrew ^g   Leitch, Eric ^d   Maffei, Bruno ^b   Mallie, Olivier ^b   Melhuish, Simon ^b   Orlando, Angiola ^b   Pisano, Giampaolo ^b   Piccirillo, Lucio ^b   Pryke, Clem ^d   Rusholme, Ben ^e   Taylor, Andy ^h   Thompson, Keith L ^e   Zemcov, Michael ^b   more..

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Feed horn design; Gaussian beam modes; Optical design; Quasi optics

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BOLOMETERS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; RAY TRACING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; FEED HORN DESIGN; GAUSSIAN BEAM MODES; OPTICAL DESIGNS; QUASI-OPTICS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 19944431004     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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